Fox News is no stranger to concocting a host of weird, non-sequitur deflections when it comes to identifying the alleged causes of — and potential solutions to — acts of high-profile public violence, like this week’s July 4 mass shooting in Highland Park, Illinois. It’s not guns, it’s weed! It’s not right-wing accelerationism, it’s poor misguided white men being nagged by feminists! You get the idea.
On Wednesday evening, however, longtime Fox News contributor and analyst Bill Bennett offered what is perhaps the most creative, albeit logistically challenging, diagnosis for the uniquely American addiction to mass shootings: exorcisms. Like, literal “the power of Christ compels you!” stuff. It’s ... a lot.
